WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some dinosaurs laid colored, speckled and spotted eggs boasting exquisite hues of blue and brown, scientists said on Thursday, in a discovery that scrambles the notion that such ...

Today’s bird nests are awash with an array of lively colors. Magpies often lay reddened eggs, nightingales can produce olive ones, and the great tinamou’s range from deep purple to sky blue. Yet, for ...

Dating dinosaur eggs has always been tricky because traditional methods rely on surrounding rocks or minerals that may have shifted over time. Now, for the first time, scientists have directly dated ...

The fossil record is rich with dinosaur eggs – thousands of specimens have been discovered. Many are fragmentary, but some are exquisitely preserved, with embryos resembling those of modern birds ...

In the Cretaceous period, Earth was plagued by widespread volcanic activity, oceanic oxygen depletion events, and mass extinctions. Fossils from that era remain and continue to give scientists clues ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers discovered the 255 eggshell fragments in the Chorrillo Formation in southern Argentina. - Fernando Novas The largest ...

Millions of years ago, during the late Cretaceous, some of the largest dinosaurs ever were laying eggs in surprisingly cold places. Looking at fossilized titanosaur eggs found in southern Argentina’s ...